Brass (production)

The activity generating the emissions is brass production. The reference product is brass. Brass is a metal. It is an alloy of 70% copper and 30% zinc as alloying element. They are both transition metals. It is a direct product from metal melting. It is in a form of ingots. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: variety of products and objects, such as locks, gears, bearings, valves, musical instruments, decorative artifacts, braces, brackets, base plates, etc., decorative purposes primarily because of its resemblance to gold. It is also commonly used to make musical instruments due to its high workability and durability. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/5792/documentation.